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Guest writer Julia Gerwe believes that connecting people to nature holds the key to collective abundance. Today, Julia’s passion for community and environmental education sustains her work as Member Coordinator of the Environmental Education Leadership Corps AmeriCorps program throughout Kentucky.
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One never knows how a simple nature experience can impact a student, a child, a grandchild. It all started as a simple observation and then recreation and a recommendation and then an acceptance letter. The parable is, never miss the opportunity to share nature with someone else...we never can…
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In this Harvest Stories, Jesse Baines of Atlantic Sea Farms shares how a team of kelp farmers use education to positively impact coastal communities as climate change makes landfall and wild fisheries are disrupted in Maine.
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Join SEI as we take a look at some of the highlights from this semester of the Climate Corps Education Outside training program!
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In this post, EE 30 Under 30 Leader Mariam Kabamba discusses how climate change, hunger, and education converge and introduces four environmental educators working toward solutions.
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CUBE Co-Founder Therese Keita describes working towards advancing STEAM-equity and climate action on the African continent.
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Basaija Augustine, director of the Youth Conservation Education Project, faces a unique community conservation challenge and its repercussions in schools.
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Dive into the story of an Ohioan partnership linking people and small businesses across the state through education, and follow the yellow perch's journey from source to plate in the latest Harvest Stories.
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CEE-Change Fellow Eileen Boekestein poetically expresses how the environmental education career journey isn't a pipeline, but a braided river of ever-changing entry points.
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What's the Worldwide Teach-In? Learn about a bottom-up educational event led by educators and community members.
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Members of the Climate Change eePRO Group met at the NAAEE Annual Conference in October 2022. This blog recaps what was discussed and shares links to resources that were mentioned during the session.
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"Spirit" is a true autobiography of Joe Lombardi's youth as a camper and counselor at a camp in the rolling hills of eastern Pennsylvania for children from urban Philadelphia.
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We truly appreciate the collective exchange of ideas each of the presenters and keynote speakers facilitate and champion at the NAAEE Annual Research Symposium and Conference. In this post, we're amplifying sessions at NAAEE2022 that center Native voices, culture, and knowledge.
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NOAA’s Environmental Literacy Program is excited to announce that it is funding nine new projects that will use education to build the foundation for resilience to weather and climate hazards.
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In the latest eeBLUE Harvest Stories, learn about a virtual learning platform used to train Georgia educators on topics such as sea-level rise, an oyster hatchery, and economic resilience through aquaculture.
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By completing a mini-MWEE, educators shared skills and innovated ways to implement a Meaningful Watershed Education Experience program this school year. Learn more in the latest Watershed Chronicles.
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Melanie Schikore writes about her Community Action Project (CAP) that uses action research methods to work towards community sustainability goals, particularly the transformation of grass lawns to sustainable yards.
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Getting from changing minds to changing behavior is a challenge all environmental educators face. By providing our audiences with ownership over their actions—and consequences—we can successfully meet this challenge. Learn how New Orleans' teens did just that.
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In the latest Watershed Chronicle, community organizations partnered with Texas middle schools to enhance watershed STEM learning in an after-school program, giving students creative space to express their knowledge of local ecosystems in various visual art projects.
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In the latest eeBLUE Harvest Stories, Maine Sea Grant and partners work together to make new aquaculture learning opportunities accessible to more than just the coast.
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Environmental NGO, Lynnhaven River Now, works with Faith communities to nurture a sense of local community stewardship.
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Storytelling matters! In the words of Dr. Eric Umstead, professor of Special Education: "I wasn't good at anything that required memorization and was taught in a direct fashion. I suppose it was my want to spend time on things that mattered to me or someone took the time to explain how it mattered…
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In the latest Watershed Chronicle, Executive Director Susan McClure shares how Lake Champlain Maritime Museum brings together informal educators and families to enrich watershed learning through lake stewardship.
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Mangroves are sea life nurseries, protectors of coastal communities, and climate change heroes. What E-STEAM methodologies can we use to teach our students about mangrove forests?
